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yes... welcome to SCALPER mode. 9 out of 10 readers here aspire to be "scalpers"... which means a lot of trades, a lot of scratches for par or small losses and a few runners eventually. now go and look at the avg win / avg loss ratio, look at the net profit after all costs. The ONLY thing that...

for the love of GOD... it wasn't a f(reakin) lucky trade. I scaled into an expected directional move, first short side early and drew down -160 after a few attempts. Once the downside failed a few times it set off a high-odds indication that upside was more probable. When price broke thru key...

Well, the real truth is, unless a trader can navigate all of those parameters regulated, they have damn little chance making money with their own cash-funded futures account. More so than ever before, risk control and flexibility as a trader are mandatory for success. Years ago you could be a...

These guys are market veterans who I've conversed with in here for the past ten years now. We are having a respectful conversation where opinions differ. There is no conflict, no name calling between us :)

#1: I work with CL alone, and how that symbol behaves during high volatility versus ES is completely different. Times of extreme volatility with monster swings going both directions multiple times daily are different than times of low volatility both directions. Or methodical trending. Actual...

#1: LOL @ fluke! Go read my blog and see where on Friday evening I predicted the solid directional trade potential inside the following Tuesday's session... and nailed it exactly as planned four days prior. Fluke? LOL II #2: I passed the combine in spite of my own self-directed pitfalls and...

huge volatility doesn't mean huge opportunity... one of many misconceptions that arm-chair traders assume. A lot of those days I was trading in the direction of price, had numerous trades move in favor = whip out stops = resume huge moves in favor. Had a lot of trades no-fill as price blew off...

A personal ego goal was to finish with 100% win-rate days but as for real-life, real money trading? One can achieve almost no losing days over long periods of time but in the end, total net profits will be less than if the same trader opens it up a bit and accepts more small-loss days in the...

Well I really don't care what you do or not do, what you like or dislike. Freedom of choice. But what you think you did there outside of TST means less than nothing about TST, you or the pairing together. For someone who dislikes everything about TST, you have a world-class unhealthy obsession...

The results of my 17-day TST combine efforts are attached. 14 of 17 days were closed net profitable. Two of those (highlighted in red) were shut down late morning net profitable by $100+ and $200+ respectively. Then later on each day, I second-guessed the decisions to cease early and tried to...

lol... well I guess the question begs to asked: why the hell didn't you simply do exactly that in a TST $50k combine? Is the $160 entry fee too rich for our Canadian exchange rate these days? Unless I'm mistaken, this is still the TST thread... unless it changed to C2 overnight?

I think it's been a year or more since I last logged into this site, and many months since I even visited to lurk. Looks like the ES Journal thread is long dead, CL Redux dead for years but the TST thread carries on without missing a beat. Something to be said about its longevity :) Anyways, it...

I'm not sure what the "acidic blood" is, not something I recall saying or even thinking, myself. As for the CL being a cash machine? Not something I said either. I do believe under normal market conditions it trades purer and cleaner via S/R levels than stock markets do, but certain days like...

I've believed for years that you've forgotten more about the complexities of spreads trading than I'll ever learn or care to know, and imo you are an ultra-successful trader by anyone's measure. That much I have believed since about 2006 thru now. What puzzles me is why you spend so much time...

well, I logged in for the first time today in however long due to an email I received. Everyone finds their own enjoyment and/or purpose for actions. I'm fine with others addicted to a message board for negative purposes if that fills their personal needs. I'm addicted to a couple of other...

I never said anyone photoshopped anything. I said I assume everything said & read here was true. If so, what motivates and drives ultra-successful traders to post here all day long, often dozens of times daily in heated verbal exchanges that don't matter to anyone at all? I'm not questioning...

None of that has anything to do with risk control. How big is your initial stop per contract? What is actually being risked per trade? That's the detail you left out that matters. Mine for CL is -5 ticks / -$50 per CL contract from fill. So a 5-lot using $5,000 margin of an x-thousand dollar...

Trend line stop sign :cool:... ... and all (Road)mapped out from 9:05am est. Ahead of time, as usual :)

Calling "trades" ahead of time in a delayed, no timestamp verified message board is amusing at best. Look at the long-running threads here where the same few guys churn thru fresh new aliases for themselves year after year, posting "trade" calls that accomplish nothing at all. 1,000s of "live...

This thread speaks of technical analysis. I posted recent examples of a tech-analysis tactic that's been given to the general public at least a half-dozen times in webinars thru Ninjatrader, TraderKingdom and others which are major site sponsors here at ET. Sponsors that make this site possible...